How to setup elastic Filebeat from scratch on a Raspberry Pi. At time of writing elastic.co do not provide ARM builds for any ELK stack component – so some extra work is required to get this up and going. Guide assumes the following: A working recent instance of the ELK stack is already setup & working A working recent up to date installation of a Debian based operating system using systemd on a later model Raspberry PI Filebeat will be

Overview CTF Challenge attempted – https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/donkeydocker-1,189/ Tip I found from the setup – if VMWare offers to upgrade the DonkeyDocker image, don’t do it. I did on mine & it broke the IP connectivity from Kali. This is my first attempt at a CTF, so was an enjoyable learning exercise. I’ve loosely grouped the steps taken below into Reconnaissance & Scanning, Access & Escalation and Exfiltration. Useful things I learnt along the way: Try simple things first before going with